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The Alexandrian Library, glory of the Hellenic world : its rise, antiquities, and destructions

by: Parsons, Edward Alexander, 1878-1962

Publication date: 1952

Topics: Alexandrian Library, Alexandrian Library, Alexandria, Egypt. Libraries and Museum, Bibliotheken, Bibliotekshistoria -- Egypten -- Alexandria, Alexandria, Egypt. Libraries and Museum, Libraries -- history, Alexandria (Egypt), Egypt -- Alexandria

Publisher: Amsterdam ; New York : Elsevier Press

Collection: printdisabled; marygrovecollege; internetarchivebooks; americana; inlibrary

Contributor: Internet Archive

Language: English

xii, 468 pages : 23 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 433-461)

Book One : Books and libraries in ancient Hellas -- Libraries of Old Greece -- Libraries of New Greece : the Attalids of Pergamum -- Libraries of New Greece : the Seleucids of Antioch-on Orontes -- Book Two : The founding of Alexandria -- The city of Alexandria -- Book Three : the founding of the museum and the library -- The founding of the museum and the library, Ptolemy Soter and Demotrios of Phaleron -- The Plautine Scholium from Tzetzes -- The personnel of the Alexandrian library -- The collecting of the books or manuscripts : the Greek books -- The collecting of the books or manuscripts : the non-Greek books -- The classification and cataloguing of the material assembled -- The editing of texts and fixing of canons of literature -- Homer -- Book Four : the destruction of the library -- Caesar's visit -- Minor imperial depredations -- Major imperial depredations -- The fall of Paganism -- Islam, the last phase